Ryan Weston

[Handre @Handre]

Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.

The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.

Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.

The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.

After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.

Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@FightWithMemes The police get grumpy if you ask if they know the constitutional solution to tyranny while they are writing you a window tint ticket in a car that is your cousins.

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@elonmusk can you get someone to return gas cans to the old design that actually worked?

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@WahlenPMattias Several sources without names is suspicious as hell. Where’s the proof as opposed to rumor?

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@BentleyAudrey Start roasting your own. It tastes so much better. Really not hard to do.

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@MTGrepp 1 time before they sounded the alarm about it. Picked it up in the Bahamas 2 days before Thanksgiving in 2019.

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@Sadie_NC No

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@realdogenews The fed, then the IRS

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@MTGrepp End the fed too!

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@TaraBull808 1, before they even knew what it was. Brought it home from the Bahamas the day before Thanksgiving 2019

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@elonmusk Did The French surrender again?

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@DrEliDavid There’s a difference between educated and indoctrinated…

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@CollinRugg Public hanging would be better. Set the example.

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@lavern_spicer Public hanging would be a good place to start.

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@Jim_Jordan And his cognitive abilities as well

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@CollinRugg Can we kill property taxes at the same time?

[Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla]

Failing to pick a leader in 2 days is not embarrassing. Spiking inflation to a 40 year high is embarrassing. Opening the border is embarrassing. Fleeing Afghanistan is embarrassing. Forcing (non-working) vaccines on people is embarrassing. Take your time, GOP. Take your time.

[Michael Seifert @realmichaelseif]

The longest government shutdown in history occurred in 2018-2019 because Trump asked for $5 billion to build the wall.

The $45 billion Ukraine aid in the Omnibus will bring our total given to that country over $100 billion, enough to build 20+ walls on the southern border.

[Ryan Weston @ryans66]

@RealCandaceO Not a fan of fake anything. Keep it real and keep it classy.